Day 22 : Continuation of rainbow shader II

Today Mr Ron came in and help us with our work.
Firstly the rainbow bridge in movie Thor does have some small pieces of multiple box which merge and constitutes to one whole piece

Which also look likes the Superman's Fortress of Solitude Mr Ron shown me

A setup made, Mr Ron also teaches me to create a fit() expression variable at copy node to randomize the points for the randomized look of the boxes and for the boxes to go as close. However this idea was scraped because the rendering time is taking forever due to the long calculation for reflectivity that is transpiring on many faces of so many boxes, especially when the boxes start to penetrate through each other

I made a mistake which was then recitified by Mr Ron, i reduced the tile size in the render setting to 8 (low) which i presume is to minimize the rendering time, but instead it will ensue in longer rendering time. The system has a lot processors, the tile size equates to the amount of job you give each processor to do, so i would say that i am under-utilizing them?, Mr Ron set it at 32, which should be good enough. He also taught me to check the rendering process in the render scheduler tab and view the displacement/shader instantly in the shader tab

A nice ocean setup shown by Mr Ron. The idea was to push the normals towards each other to mold a peak of a wave; the node was called peak as well, and then smooth it out, the facet node will display the normals to give you a better overview of what is going on. Eventually he added some thickness to it with extrudevolume and animate it with $T on the mountain node

Close up

I have been trying to append some visible reflection on the surface, i tried a reflective node after the mix and add both together. In the close up shot of the character, the reflection is visibly seen. However the downside is, in the full shot, there is some slanted white lining, looks very distracting though. JB advises me to post on the forum to seek for help


http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/14049-trying-to-create-ther-rainbow-bridge-in-thor/#entry87341
And here it is
Hopefully some kind soul will reply